Delayed spinal infection after laminectomy in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis interruptedly exposed to anti-tumor necrosis factor α agents

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 937-939

  Mori, Shunsuke ^a   Tomita, Yusuke ^a   Horikawa, Tomohiro ^a   Cho, Isamu ^a   Sugimoto, Mineharu ^a  

^a Kumamoto Saishunsou National Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti TNF therapy; Delayed postoperative infection; Etanercept; Orthopedic surgery; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ETANERCEPT; INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE; METICILLIN; PREDNISOLONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA ANTIBODY;

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LABORATORY TEST; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR SPINE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEPSIS; SEROLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TREATMENT DURATION; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; WOUND HEALING;

AGED; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DISCITIS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; SPINAL STENOSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 45049088116     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-008-0869-1     Document Type: Article

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